pillars had 8 abdominal feet, I should associate them with 

 that family and not with the Pyralidse. Even the cocoon 

 (fig. A.) is very similar to those formed by the larvae of Halias 

 clorana and our genus Sarrothripus (pi. 29.). Dr. Leach and 

 Mr. Samouelle have described the palpi with "the 2nd and 3rd 

 joints nearly equally long," which is undoubtedly a mistake. 



With the larva and pupa of Tortrix ntgosana Hiib. I am 

 unacquainted, but the moth seems to be a beautiful connecting 

 link between Sarrothripus and Nola; the upper wings have 

 the same curious tufts of scales, only greater in number, and 

 the palpi appear to be intermediate. 



Three species inhabit England. 



1. N. monachalis Haiso.—Curt. Brit. Efit. pi. 428 ? : the c? I 



have not seen. 

 Stated to have been taken in the Fens in Yorkshire the end 

 of May. It is very rare, and has never been figured, and it 

 is remarkable that neither of the other species has in any 

 English work that I remember. 



2. N. strigulalis Hub. Pyrahdes^Z. 3. f. 16. 



Palpi and rays of antennae shorter than in N. cucullatella. 

 White variegated and slightly freckled with pale cinereous: 

 thorax with a yellowish brown band across the front: superior 

 wings sublanceolate, costa spotted with black and brown, an 

 angulated black striga before and another more lobed and 

 crenated beyond the middle with a serrated one and 2 of the 

 elevated tufts between them; posterior margin cinereous, va- 

 riegated with white, the nervures darker with an irregular line 

 or two towards the margin : inferior wings cinereous, palest at 

 the base, with a long spot in the disc, shining through from 

 beneath. 



Not uncommon the end of May and beginning of June. In 

 the 3rd volume of Kirby and Spence, p. 230, is an interesting 

 account of the Caterpillar, it is supposed of this Moth. 



3. N. cucullatella Linn. — palliolalis Hub. pi. 23./ 149 ? — 



pl.S.f.lSS' 



Palpi longer than the head: antennae producing in the 

 males 2 ciliated spines towards the base of each joint. Gray 

 or cinereous, superior wings rounded, base dark cinereous, 

 terminated by a blackish curved striga ; beyond the middle is 

 a fine sinuated black striga bounding a gray fascia containing 

 one of the 3 tufts, through which sometimes passes a pale 

 brown waved striga; a gray sinuated line towards the posterior 

 margin, and 2 dots on the costa : inferior wings palest at the 

 base. 



Beginning and middle of July in hedges and gardens ; on 

 paling in Regent's Park. The Caterpillar feeds on Apple-trees. 



The Plant is Eriophorum angnsfifoUiim (Common Cotton- 

 grass). 



